Okay, looking for some good PC games that my commy can handle, i recently got cod 1 and 2 for it and theyre top :P Heres some info for my comp i got off can you run it. Reccomend some stuff please :P CPU You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e CPU Speed You Have: 2.30 GHz Performance Rated at: 3.68 GHz RAM You Have: 1.9 GB OS You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit Video Card You Have: GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 DirectX version You Have: 10.0 Sound Card You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio Free Disk Space You Have: 147.8 GB (I have a 500gb external Im moving stuff to soon so ittl all free up) CD-ROM You Have: BCPM 1Q7C5AJ8 SCSI CdRom Device
Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS)
Thanks ill check em out. [QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS) Any reccomendations on how i should or could upgrade? and thanks
[QUOTE="VanillaBear505"]Thanks ill check em out. [QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS) Any reccomendations on how i should or could upgrade? and thanks Build a new PC.
[QUOTE="VanillaBear505"]Thanks ill check em out. [QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS) Any reccomendations on how i should or could upgrade? and thanks If you look up some guides on the internet, its not that hard to change RAM or a video card. Upgrade to 4 gigs of RAM and an 8800 GT is cheap now and a lot better than what you have. Hopefully your power supply unit isn't garbage, otherwise you might have to upgrade that. Which can be a little daunting for someone who hasn't tried to upgrade anything before. But its not really that much harder either. Just plug in the wires to all of your hardware :P
[QUOTE="VanillaBear505"]Thanks ill check em out. [QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS)millerlight89
Any reccomendations on how i should or could upgrade? and thanks Build a new PC.
Yea, if you're considering upgrading. The only route with this hardware, is to start from scratch.
[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="VanillaBear505"] Any reccomendations on how i should or could upgrade? and thanksmorrowindnic
Build a new PC.
Yea, if you're considering upgrading. The only route with this hardware, is to start from scratch.
His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares?
[QUOTE="millerlight89"] Build a new PC.zomglolcats
Yea, if you're considering upgrading. The only route with this hardware, is to start from scratch.
His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares? His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.
Yea, if you're considering upgrading. The only route with this hardware, is to start from scratch.
millerlight89
His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares? His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked. He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game.
[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="zomglolcats"] His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares?zomglolcats
His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked. He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game.
[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="zomglolcats"] His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares?zomglolcats
His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked. He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game. I don't remember saying he needed a monster rig, did I? Nope! I don't understand why people like you think that just because his CPU is a dual core it is fine :roll:.
[QUOTE="millerlight89"] His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.morrowindnic
He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game.
Along with that he will probably need a new PSU.
He probably would. Still would be cheaper than building a whole new rig. if he can afford that, then yeah, build a new one. But if he's asking for games for an outdated computer, I'm guessing he can't. My point is, he can make some cheap and simple upgrades and see a huge performance boost.
[QUOTE="millerlight89"] His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.millerlight89
He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game. I don't remember saying he needed a monster rig, did I? Nope! I don't understand why people like you think that just because his CPU is a dual core it is fine :roll:. No, but you pretty much said his computer was garbage, or implied that when he asked what he should upgrade and told him to build a completely new one. A dual core is fine. Sure you can't run crappy ports like GTA 4. Just about everything else is fine though. Do you REALLY think you need a Quad Core to run all of the latest games? Do you really need to run everything maxed with max AA?
I have an e6400 core 2 duo, 8800 gt. I don't have any problems running games. Have I tried GTA 4 or Crysis? Nope. Do I care? Not really. I can run everything else I've tried just fine.
[QUOTE="zomglolcats"] He has a dual core. And currently he has GeForce 6150SE. Upgrading that video card alone would be a substantial boost. I don't get people who think you have to have a monster rig to play any game.
zomglolcats
Along with that he will probably need a new PSU.
He probably would. Still would be cheaper than building a whole new rig. if he can afford that, then yeah, build a new one. But if he's asking for games for an outdated computer, I'm guessing he can't. My point is, he can make some cheap and simple upgrades and see a huge performance boost.
But, his computer is probably pre-built, therefore upgrading the PSU is out of the question.
He probably would. Still would be cheaper than building a whole new rig. if he can afford that, then yeah, build a new one. But if he's asking for games for an outdated computer, I'm guessing he can't. My point is, he can make some cheap and simple upgrades and see a huge performance boost.
But, his computer is probably pre-built, therefore upgrading the PSU is out of the question.
Maybe, maybe not. You can't possibly say that without looking at it. I know people who replaced the PSU's in their prebuilt. Depends on the design of the case. I'm all for building a new rig, but if he can't for whatever reason, it's worth it to at least check to see if he can upgrade.
I dont want some crazy good computer :P All I do is go on photoshop and c4d and they work fine, just wanna make it a little faster and be able to play half decent games on it. I just looked up about upgrading my RAM being completely rubbish with computer whizznology this number thing has something to do with it but i dont know what... DDR2 PC2-6400,DDR2 PC2-5300 The test says i can upgrade to 4 gb thanks for the help so far guys :D
Yea, if you're considering upgrading. The only route with this hardware, is to start from scratch.
millerlight89
His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares? His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.
you know there will ALWAYS be a bottlekneck on any machine you build.
He can upgrade to the 8800gt or something similar and 4gb of ram. He will get fine performance on all the games out there now. He might not be maxing anything, but it'll be playable
[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="zomglolcats"] His hardware really isn't that bad... Just the RAM and video card. All of which are infinitely cheaper than building a whole new PC. Sure he won't max out Crysis, but who cares?simardbrad
His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.
you know there will ALWAYS be a bottlekneck on any machine you build.
He can upgrade to the 8800gt or something similar and 4gb of ram. He will get fine performance on all the games out there now. He might not be maxing anything, but it'll be playable
[QUOTE="millerlight89"] His CPU is quite weak. Upgrading to a stronger video card other than the last dx9 era is pointless. He will be bottlenecked.zomglolcats
you know there will ALWAYS be a bottlekneck on any machine you build.
He can upgrade to the 8800gt or something similar and 4gb of ram. He will get fine performance on all the games out there now. He might not be maxing anything, but it'll be playable
Thank you. Finally someone with common sense.
Well if he changes to an 8800gt he would probably have to upgrade his PSU, so personally I would recomend a HD4670. Ridiculous performance for the money and you don't need a good power supply for it.
you know there will ALWAYS be a bottlekneck on any machine you build.
He can upgrade to the 8800gt or something similar and 4gb of ram. He will get fine performance on all the games out there now. He might not be maxing anything, but it'll be playable
shakmaster13
Thank you. Finally someone with common sense.
Well if he changes to an 8800gt he would probably have to upgrade his PSU, so personally I would recomend a HD4670. Ridiculous performance for the money and you don't need a good power supply for it.
Yeah and swapping out the PSU isn't really hard at all.
Right so basically... I get: http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/4162584/Leadtek-Winfast-PX-Geforce-8800GT-ZL-512MB-PCI-Express-2-0-Graphics-Card/Product.html and: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=ct25664aa667 and im sorted? >.>
Right so basically... I get: http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/4162584/Leadtek-Winfast-PX-Geforce-8800GT-ZL-512MB-PCI-Express-2-0-Graphics-Card/Product.html and: http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?imodule=ct25664aa667 and im sorted? >.>VanillaBear505
You will need to upgrade you power supply as well most likely, unless you switch the 8800gt with this. A little slower than the 8800gt, but can still run all the games out there pretty well at 1440x900 and below.
EDIT: also, before updating your ram, make sure it is compatible with your motherboard.
[QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) He doesnt even have a videocard, its integrated haha. I dobut he can run bf2 or even source games :O if he can, then its just barley. Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS)
[QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"][QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS)He doesnt even have a videocard, its integrated haha. I dobut he can run bf2 or even source games :O if he can, then its just barley. He can run CoD 1 & 2 so the older source games won't be an issue. To others - the OP is indeed running an integrated card pretty much _any_ standalone card upgrade will improve performance across the board. Another thing to note: The OP will not see full use of 4GB of RAM without a 64 bit version of Vista, the economy method is thus to just upgrade to 3GB. Disabling the onboard video and replacing it w/ a card that has decent graphics memory will free up some of the core memory thats being eaten up right now by Shared Video Memory. (No, it isn't the 'super ultra best happy fun go time upgrade' path, but it is economical and will work).
[QUOTE="carlosjuero"][QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"][QUOTE="carlosjuero"]Main bottlenecks are RAM and Video card for you - that said there are plenty of games that will run ok on it. AI War: Fleet Command for some good strategy/4X/Tower Defense C&C 1 & 2 don't know if 3 will run on those specs but it is doubtful it would run in full glory if you managed to get it up) Sacred Gold (ARPG) NWN 1 & 2 (RPG) Duke Nukeum 3D (GoG.com//FPS) Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (GoG.com//RPG) Civ 1-3 Definitely (TBS)He doesnt even have a videocard, its integrated haha. I dobut he can run bf2 or even source games :O if he can, then its just barley. He can run CoD 1 & 2 so the older source games won't be an issue. To others - the OP is indeed running an integrated card pretty much _any_ standalone card upgrade will improve performance across the board. Another thing to note: The OP will not see full use of 4GB of RAM without a 64 bit version of Vista, the economy method is thus to just upgrade to 3GB. Disabling the onboard video and replacing it w/ a card that has decent graphics memory will free up some of the core memory thats being eaten up right now by Shared Video Memory. (No, it isn't the 'super ultra best happy fun go time upgrade' path, but it is economical and will work). So I should just get one 2gb memory stick thing...and the graphics card shakmaster suggested...stop using the one thats already in there and all done?! Would this mean id have to upgrade my power supply though?
He probably would. Still would be cheaper than building a whole new rig. if he can afford that, then yeah, build a new one. But if he's asking for games for an outdated computer, I'm guessing he can't. My point is, he can make some cheap and simple upgrades and see a huge performance boost.
But, his computer is probably pre-built, therefore upgrading the PSU is out of the question.
Bull. I managed to replace my PSU on a prebuilt DELL. Anything is possible.
I honestly do not suggest battlefield 2... i got it for my laptop and what a let down... bunch of trouble getting it to work with windows 7, and when i finally did get it to work there are only like 2 games ever active online! like 40 people tops ever on...and not to sure how BF2 would go with vista... of course you can't go wrong with Diablo 2!! an extremely addicting RPG that even people with beefed up computers still play! And will work on my grandma's windows 98! :P
I honestly do not suggest battlefield 2... i got it for my laptop and what a let down... bunch of trouble getting it to work with windows 7, and when i finally did get it to work there are only like 2 games ever active online! like 40 people tops ever on...and not to sure how BF2 would go with vista... of course you can't go wrong with Diablo 2!! an extremely addicting RPG that even people with beefed up computers still play! And will work on my grandma's windows 98! :PUmmm no. There are always plenty of games active with 64 people. You probably didn't patch the game.
[QUOTE="VanillaBear505"]Okay, looking for some good PC games that my commy can handle, i recently got cod 1 and 2 for it and theyre top :P Heres some info for my comp i got off can you run it. Reccomend some stuff please :P CPU You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e CPU Speed You Have: 2.30 GHz Performance Rated at: 3.68 GHz RAM You Have: 1.9 GB OS You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit Video Card You Have: GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 DirectX version You Have: 10.0 Sound Card You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio Free Disk Space You Have: 147.8 GB (I have a 500gb external Im moving stuff to soon so ittl all free up) CD-ROM You Have: BCPM 1Q7C5AJ8 SCSI CdRom Device Your system is absolutely fine for gaming with the exception of the graphics card. But if you just tossed a Radeon HD 4670 (~$80) in there, that would get you up and running at medium-high details in most games. And even a cheap power supply should be able to handle that card just fine, so whatever you've got now will almost certainly work. Don't listen to the naysayers! In the meanwhile, you should play: - Pretty much any Source engine game (CS:S, TF2, HL2, L4D) - Morrowind - Oblivion (possible with tweaks and/or mods) - Deus Ex - Disciples II - Fallout 1 & 2 - GTA3/VC/SA And of course, pretty much anything else is possible if you're willing to settle for ultra-low settings and/or a bit of tweaking. Good luck!
[QUOTE="JN_Fenrir"][QUOTE="VanillaBear505"]Okay, looking for some good PC games that my commy can handle, i recently got cod 1 and 2 for it and theyre top :P Heres some info for my comp i got off can you run it. Reccomend some stuff please :P CPU You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4450e CPU Speed You Have: 2.30 GHz Performance Rated at: 3.68 GHz RAM You Have: 1.9 GB OS You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, 32-bit Video Card You Have: GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 DirectX version You Have: 10.0 Sound Card You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio Free Disk Space You Have: 147.8 GB (I have a 500gb external Im moving stuff to soon so ittl all free up) CD-ROM You Have: BCPM 1Q7C5AJ8 SCSI CdRom Device Your system is absolutely fine for gaming with the exception of the graphics card. But if you just tossed a Radeon HD 4670 (~$80) in there, that would get you up and running at medium-high details in most games. And even a cheap power supply should be able to handle that card just fine, so whatever you've got now will almost certainly work. Don't listen to the naysayers! In the meanwhile, you should play: - Pretty much any Source engine game (CS:S, TF2, HL2, L4D) - Morrowind - Oblivion (possible with tweaks and/or mods) - Deus Ex - Disciples II - Fallout 1 & 2 - GTA3/VC/SA And of course, pretty much anything else is possible if you're willing to settle for ultra-low settings and/or a bit of tweaking. Good luck! Hmm, so a graphics card upgrade on its own would be fine? :D
sorry for dp, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GV-R467ZL-1GI-Radeon-4670-Graphics/dp/B001YOM676/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1264524911&sr=8-1 would that be fine fen? and that wouldnt require me to upgrade anything else? :D thanks btw
[QUOTE="millerlight89"] I don't remember saying he needed a monster rig, did I? Nope! I don't understand why people like you think that just because his CPU is a dual core it is fine :roll:. I run a Pentium D 805 2.66, one of the first Dual Cores and I can run Crysis on High (except for the last part with the huge boss, it becomes a slide show at that point). Granted, I have OC'ed it to 3.3 Ghz (but it's still a dual core), a ATI Radeon 4850, and 8 GB of RAM but the CPU hasn't changed since 2006.
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